16 million - twice as many as New York. I have so say I don't think I can contemplate that, in the same way that I think the people who've never been outside of Slovenia can contemplate New York.
Love the pyramids in that skyline. It's like a visual illustration of history.
The whole thing with Egyptians worshipping cats and now there being feral cats everywhere just seems so obvious and yet also somehow poetic.
the whole thing was really weird. i was out with aris and mikko, two of my really good friends, and i said i just "didn't want to go home", and mikko in his finnish accent (which i love) was like "then go somewhere else.." it was such a simple comment, but so... i had just never even contemplated it. It was like this switch flipped in my head, I really didn't have to go home, it was just money, i could buy another ticket and go somewhere else. Mikko asked me where I would go if I could go anywhere, and I said Cairo, 5 minutes later they had convinced me to go. I only had 24 hours to get my stuff together, but it turned out fine
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I'm glad you're having a good experience with poverty and a foreign country. My hometown scared the bejeezus out of Chris when he visited. (Every part of town was a bad part as far as he was concerned.) But that was just what I grew up with. It's the same reason why I will talk with just about anyone on the street much to the horror of some of my companions. My sense of safety and propriety is just different and since I haven't gotten myself into trouble yet, I'm assuming my instincts are OK.
I wonder if, as an asian woman, I would have as easy a time roaming as you even though it would be apparent I was American as soon as I opened my mouth?
yeah im pretty pissed about that. I just realized that 'save for web'(pshop), while being a great way to make good looking images, and remembering the last saved folder, strips all the fucking EXIF data!
I brought with me an 18-200mm f3.5-5.6, and a 80-200mm f2.8, unfortunately, because i didn't want to break it, i did not use the f2.8 once :-\ I refit my grandfathers old wwii map bag with the inside of a camera bag so that i could drop my camera in this old ratty bag and have it be safe from bumping into things. That worked out well, however, there is no old bag that would fit my 80-200mm. The 18-200 is a great lens, but it has some distortion at full 200, and has some vignetting when wide open. I like shooting tele a lot, but i just couldn't travel around with a big touristy backpack.
nice thinking with the bag! thankfully here in madrid you're as safe as it comes so you can easily walk around with your full gear on display and get absolutely no stares nor scares. I'm thinking about getting a lowerpro slingshot aw200 as that should fit all my lenses (i have zero teles and the one's i brought barely reach 15cm in lenght).
dunno man, the 18-200 sure has a nice bokeh and i'm surprised it produces a nice isolation even with f/3.5, chances are you couldn't do much better with f/2.8 they're great as it is!
Also, in the fucking bright ass desert, it's difficult to see your LCD properly (I later found out). Everything I shot was overexposed (and i shot at a -.7 to -1 compensation). I should have bracketed or something. But I didn't have lots of space on my cards. (Though I did take 8gb of photos (3/4 JPG, 1/4 RAW)
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Love the pyramids in that skyline. It's like a visual illustration of history.
The whole thing with Egyptians worshipping cats and now there being feral cats everywhere just seems so obvious and yet also somehow poetic.
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I wonder if, as an asian woman, I would have as easy a time roaming as you even though it would be apparent I was American as soon as I opened my mouth?
And you drank the water! The horror! :p
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I brought with me an 18-200mm f3.5-5.6, and a 80-200mm f2.8, unfortunately, because i didn't want to break it, i did not use the f2.8 once :-\ I refit my grandfathers old wwii map bag with the inside of a camera bag so that i could drop my camera in this old ratty bag and have it be safe from bumping into things. That worked out well, however, there is no old bag that would fit my 80-200mm. The 18-200 is a great lens, but it has some distortion at full 200, and has some vignetting when wide open. I like shooting tele a lot, but i just couldn't travel around with a big touristy backpack.
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dunno man, the 18-200 sure has a nice bokeh and i'm surprised it produces a nice isolation even with f/3.5, chances are you couldn't do much better with f/2.8 they're great as it is!
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